ROSE RAMBLER 2.7.2020 … Hello dear rose friends … not just a new month but already the second half of the year and the winter solstice behind us so we move on to longer days – how time zooms on by!
PLEASE KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN DIGGING ROSES THIS SEASON … with extremely wet conditions, soil compaction becomes an issue when large machinery is required to undercut roses in order to make lifting them possible.
There will be another huge consignment of roses delivered to the Rose Farm next week – we are posting roses every single day of the week – our telephones are manned during open days Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday … however, we are definitely closed to the public due to Covid-19.
Please don’t call to enquire after the status of your rose order – all orders will be honoured and ETA for most orders is now mid-late July with standards expected to be posted late July-early August.
Winter is ‘rose season’ so we still have all of August available to post roses.
Some roses offer the amazing quality of flowering right into winter and here are a few I have noticed in the gardens here – they flowered despite frosty mornings and their fragrance was intense too –
CHARLES DE GAULLE – possibly one of my favourite lilac-blue roses for perfect Hybrid Tea form, lovely open-shaped healthy foliaged bush which produces bunches of highly fragrant flowers which are long-lasting in a vase …
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FIREFIGHTER – dark, rich red, intensely fragrant, perfectly formed blooms on very long, thornless stems (one for the blokes who detest thorns!). The very tall bush is healthy but will love being positioned in the hottest part of your garden … SHOP NOW
NAHEMA – I just LOVE this climbing rose because it continues to produce masses of highly fragrant soft-pink blooms on long thornless stems relentlessly! It has unique curled foliage which is nothing to worry about and deserves planting as a free-standing shrub or climber ... SHOP NOW
Q. What do you call a snail on a ship? A. A snailor
Speaking of snails … stay on top of them by using a pet-safe snail bait throughout winter. That should slow down their breeding which means you’ll have less issues with their destructive force in spring!
Meantime, hope you’re enjoying getting out in the garden while the weather is so inviting to share time with the kids through these school holidays …
Cheers from Graham, Diana and Mooi at Silkies Rose Farm, Clonbinane